| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him. |
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